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Overview

The Coulsdon Chess Summer Cups take place over 7 rounds from the beginning of June. It runs consecutively every Monday evening from 8th June until 20th July. It begins at 7.30pm and the time controls are standard play 90 minutes plus 30 second increments Fischer Timing.

Entries are take on the basis of a players June FIDE and ECF rating, and players must play in the lowest section that both of their ratings put them, unless the players eligible for the section above are happy to allow them to play in the higher section (players cannot choose to play in a higher section without such permission being agreed by the vast majority of those players). However Coulsdon Chess reserves the right to move a player up a section if they believe their FIDE rating is too low in comparison to their ECF rating or, they are too strong for the section they would end up in.

The Jim Hale trophy will be presented to the player that has the highest FIDE Rating performance above their own rating (or ECF conversion/Coulsdon Chess estimate).

As we are running Swiss system events, players can enter at any time, but must be registered by 9am on the Friday immediately preceding a round if they wish to be included in the next round of pairings.

Byes

If Coulsdon Chess is forced to give a scoring bye to anyone, it will normally be given (if possible) to a player who has not previously had a bye, and will be worth 3 points. Requested Byes must be booked by 9am the Friday immediately preceding the round. If a player requests a bye and it is their first bye of the event, it is worth 2 points (although final round byes can only be worth 2 points if booked before the start of the competition). Any other subsequent byes which are booked before 9am on the Friday immediately preceding a round are worth 1 point. Any cancellations/withdrawals after the 9am cut off will be worth 0. If anyone fails to show for a match or cancels after 5pm on the day will score -1.

Fixtures

Coulsdon Chess will hopefully have someone on standby, so generally everyone available will play every week that they are available. To ensure everyone gets a game, Coulsdon Chess reserves the right to pair a player from a lower section with a player from the higher section to balance numbers. Where this happens, the ‘higher’ player will be playing for points in their section and the ‘lower’ player will receive a bye in theirs – unless the ‘higher’ player is eligible to play in the lower section, in which case the game shall count in both sections.

There are very strict rules on postponements and we state in the rules that players receiving the weekly email are considered to have read, received and accepted any changes we make, unless we hear from you otherwise. You will default the game. The obligation is on you to contact us if you don’t get the weekly email.

General Points

No sealed moves may be used – all matches must be completed on the evening they start. 

All players must be Gold Members of the ECF, and registered with FIDE